seesaw

Example Sentences

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All this during a rather seesaw start of the year for Netflix investors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The 23-year-old struck in the 85th minute of a seesaw Premier League struggle in northeast England.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

They are integral parts of a dynamic structural system—their weight of stone pushing the walls outward while the flying buttresses outside push them inward—the two forces exactly matching, like a perfectly balanced seesaw.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

To the 73 million Americans whose financial lives depend on the viability of Social Security, those first months were a seesaw of apprehension and rumor.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone else.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood